Word: kismet
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...criminal activity, the team was soon redirected to Iraq's National Museum when news broke that priceless artifacts were being looted. They camped out in the museum for the remainder of his tour of duty, tallying the artifacts stolen and hunting down the thieves. It was, perhaps, serendipity or kismet, that Bogdanos, who holds advanced degrees in law and classics from Columbia University, would be present to take on the task of recovering some of the world's greatest stolen treasures. In his book Thieves of Baghdad, Bogdanos describes the looting, and the ongoing investigation, with passion, erudition and candor...
...adventure of innocent lust. And when the teen witches and wizards of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series, vacated the prime slot of the weekend before Thanksgiving for a July 2009 opening, the vampires of Twilight moved in. It sounds like kismet, Hollywood-style. (See 90 years of vampires onscreen...
...Kismet! In 2005 a match was made and, after a courtesy call to the widow of old Mr. Patterson and a first payment to Giuliani estimated at $1 million to $1.5 million, the firm was renamed Bracewell & Giuliani. The former mayor began recruiting lawyers and drumming up business in his old stamping grounds...
...peoples also believed their lives could be changed by distant, unseen beings. They called these entities angels, demons and gods. Today, the complex world that travel, communications and other technologies have created can likewise seem as if moved by mystic forces. If Lost is a jungle of quasi-shamanistic kismet, it resonates because our world appears that way too. In Babel, Heroes and their forebears--from Magnolia to the novels of Thomas Pynchon--even if the connections may be contrived, they feel authentic. That guy in the next car on the freeway could change my life someday! If I save...
Both will attend graduate programs in Princeton next year; Ms. Heller for a doctorate in English and Mr. Alfono for a master’s in philosophy. Looking starry-eyed, she says that kismet happens. “You’ll know,” she says. “From the day I got together with Mark, I knew...